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Cerf painting. It was all charity of course, but I wonder what he ever did with the darn thing!

The girls raised thousands of dollars with this stunt. It was a very successful function.

Q:

A great idea.

Cerf:

Yes. It was great, but you can't do it twice. Somebody tried it again, and it didn't work the second time. It was just the novelty that put it over.

Q:

You're not going to get the people to do the paintings a second time;

Cerf:

We have some of the paintings to this day. I bought John O'Hara's, and I bought Deems Taylor's. They hung for quite a while. I guess that we've put them all aside now. They were amateur dabs, but it was fun.





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